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Bring Me a Dream

5/23/2020

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So, it's a weird story, but a true one:

I haven't slept well or soundly for about nine months. My insomnia started in August 2019 and has kept up its vicious pattern doggedly and insistently. 

During the last months of shelter-in-place, enduring a solo quarantine in the COVID epicenter, literally surrounded by a horrendous amount of death and fear, on top of the increased stress of teaching four different classes online, I found that my  insomnia worsened, and I realized I would go crazy if I didn't find a solution. So I started drawing at nighttime. Drawing before bed usually helps, and most of the pictures are not anything that was for work, just something to calm my mind.

​One such drawing, "Sleep", I made as an offering and a wish. In my online post I hoped that it would "bring on the Sandman."
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 But...the thing is, it did.  First of all, I slept soundly that night for the first time in a long while.

Secondly, I woke up with this in my head, fully formed. And the main character? The Sandman, Dream, Morpheus...(a creation of Neil Gaiman for his comic series of the same name.). I had literally "brought him on." So, I woke up and immediately sketched out the story so it wouldn't fade away, as dreams do. But that, too, did not fade. It was a gift. So, thanks, Sandman, and Neil Gaiman, for the rest. I think the Sandman must be real. This was how that character looked in my own mind. 

(Made during weeks 9 and 10 of COVID-19 shelter-in-place, Queens, NY). 

"Bring Me a Dream" Jessica Boehman, Watercolor and digital. ​ Lettering by Taylor Esposito of Ghost Glyph Studios.  May 2020. See more details here.
​Based on the copyrighted character of The Sandman created by Neil Gaiman.
Do not reproduce. Not for sale.

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S⃣T⃣A⃣F⃣F⃣O⃣R⃣D⃣ Gregoire
5/23/2020 05:26:53 pm

Fantastic comic!
Hints of Gaiman’s
•Sandman• but with
A je ne sai quoi
That made me want more

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Jessica Marie Boehman
5/24/2020 04:24:39 am

Thanks, Stafford!

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